David Lowery

David Lowery, the director of this year's Sundance breakout "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" (who also wrote the Sundance film "Pit Stop" and edited the Sundance film "Upstream Color"), is so proud of his own film and three recent releases from some of his friends that if you see all four, he'll send you ...

Is David Lowery having the year of his life or what? Let's recap, shall we? In January he had his hand in three films in Park City: as the writer of "Pit Stop," editor on Shane Carruth's "Upstream Color," and writer/director on his own impeccable "Ain't Them Bodies Saints." And the heat generated fr...

“We can make it. We can make it if we run,” whispers Ruth (Rooney Mara) in David Lowery’s “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints,” which, after a limited release on Friday, begins its expansion this week. It’s a film we loved at Sundance, and one that in its gentle subversion of the “Lovers on the Run” subgenre—...

Though it’s only open in a few theaters in Los Angeles and New York City, this weekend sees David Lowery’s gorgeous “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” expand across the country and hit VOD. Yesterday brought a graphic novel prologue and today brings something equally delightful and cool: a short behind-the-...

This past weekend, David Lowery's searing and gorgeous "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" opened in limited release, hitting a few theaters in New York City. And while you wait patiently for the movie to roll into a theater near you — it expands next weekend, while also hitting VOD (though this is one we ur...

Set in 1970s Texas, but stationed inside an authentic milieu that feels timeless and classic, David Lowery's fourth feature-length effort, "Ain't Them Bodies Saints," is the culmination of a filmmaker who has put in over a decade of work in the trenches as an editor, cinematographer, writer, electri...

Writer-director David Lowery has been putting in his 10,000 hours over the past few years, working as an editor and cinematographer on many of his friends' micro-budget projects, as part of the growing multi-tasking barter indie culture. He's helped many of the geographically disparate friends he's ...

Shot on black-and-white 16mm film, noted for its abrasive, rapid-fire dialogue style, we'll fully admit, "The Color Wheel," director Alex Ross Perry's screwball-ish black comedy divided Playlist writers from the rest of the world, even though it was a cause celebre film for indie filmmakers and indi...

Harvey Scissorhands. That's a description that the movie mogul will never live down. But he earned the moniker over decades by often demanding that his filmmakers, from homegrown to acquired, get back in the editing room and make their movies better. Most recently, he offered indie filmmaker David L...

Last night the Brooklyn Academy of Music kicked off its 5th annual BAMcinemaFest, a 10-day showcase of independent films culled from Cannes, Sundance, TIFF, Berlin, SXSW and other festivals from around the world. Highlights from this year’s lineup include James Ponsoldt's teen romance "The Spectacul...